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Hypergraph neural networks have been promising tools for handling learning tasks involving higher-order data, with notable applications in web graphs, such as modeling multi-way hyperlink structures and complex user interactions. Yet, their…

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We provide sharp path-dependent generalization and excess risk guarantees for the full-batch Gradient Descent (GD) algorithm on smooth losses (possibly non-Lipschitz, possibly nonconvex). At the heart of our analysis is an upper bound on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-13 Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Farzin Haddadpour , Amin Karbasi , Dionysios S. Kalogerias

The derivation of second-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as continuous-time limits of optimization algorithms has been shown to be an effective tool for the analysis of these algorithms. Additionally, discretizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Rachel Walker , Emily Zhang

Gradient-based optimization methods have shown remarkable empirical success, yet their theoretical generalization properties remain only partially understood. In this paper, we establish a generalization bound for gradient flow that aligns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yilan Chen , Zhichao Wang , Wei Huang , Andi Han , Taiji Suzuki , Arya Mazumdar

The abundance of high-dimensional data in the modern sciences has generated tremendous interest in penalized estimators such as the lasso, scaled lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, and many others. In this paper, we establish a general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Johannes Lederer , Lu Yu , Irina Gaynanova

Neural networks have achieved remarkable success in many cognitive tasks. However, when they are trained sequentially on multiple tasks without access to old data, their performance on early tasks tend to drop significantly. This problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Dong Yin , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Ang Li , Nir Levine , Alex Mott

Conventional techniques for imposing monotonicity in MLPs by construction involve the use of non-negative weight constraints and bounded activation functions, which pose well-known optimization challenges. In this work, we generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Davide Sartor , Alberto Sinigaglia , Gian Antonio Susto

A major challenge in designing efficient statistical supervised learning algorithms is finding representations that perform well not only on available training samples but also on unseen data. While the study of representation learning has…

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Recently, metric learning and similarity learning have attracted a large amount of interest. Many models and optimisation algorithms have been proposed. However, there is relatively little work on the generalization analysis of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Qiong Cao , Zheng-Chu Guo , Yiming Ying

This paper presents a margin-based multiclass generalization bound for neural networks that scales with their margin-normalized "spectral complexity": their Lipschitz constant, meaning the product of the spectral norms of the weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Peter Bartlett , Dylan J. Foster , Matus Telgarsky

Deep learning models have proven enormously successful at using multiple layers of representation to learn relevant features of structured data. Encoding physical symmetries into these models can improve performance on difficult tasks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Cassidy Ashworth , Pietro Liò , Francesco Caso

Rapid advances in data collection and processing capabilities have allowed for the use of increasingly complex models that give rise to nonconvex optimization problems. These formulations, however, can be arbitrarily difficult to solve in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Generalized uncertainty principles (GUP) and, independently, Lorentz symmetry violations are two common features in many candidate theories of quantum gravity. Despite that, the overlap between both has received limited attention so far. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-22 André H. Gomes

In this paper, by introducing Generalized Bernstein condition, we propose the first $\mathcal{O}\big(\frac{\sqrt{p}}{n\epsilon}\big)$ high probability excess population risk bound for differentially private algorithms under the assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Jian Li , Weiping Wang

It is common practice to combine deep neural networks into ensembles. These deep ensembles can benefit from the cancellation of errors effect: Errors by ensemble members may average out, leading to better generalization performance than…

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This paper studies the generalization bounds for the empirical saddle point (ESP) solution to stochastic saddle point (SSP) problems. For SSP with Lipschitz continuous and strongly convex-strongly concave objective functions, we establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Junyu Zhang , Mingyi Hong , Mengdi Wang , Shuzhong Zhang

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) represent continuous-time dynamics with neural networks, offering advancements for modeling and control tasks. However, training Neural ODEs requires solving differential equations at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mariia Shapovalova , Calvin Tsay

We establish novel generalization bounds for learning algorithms that converge to global minima. We do so by deriving black-box stability results that only depend on the convergence of a learning algorithm and the geometry around the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-25 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

We consider linear two-time-scale stochastic approximation algorithms driven by martingale noise. Recent applications in machine learning motivate the need to understand finite-time error rates, but conventional stochastic approximation…

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We develop a general theory of synaptic neural balance and how it can emerge or be enforced in neural networks. For a given regularizer, a neuron is said to be in balance if the total cost of its input weights is equal to the total cost of…

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